Saints have 4th ranked defense.

this is a discussion within the Saints Community Forum; Well, after all the dust settled following Monday Night Football, the Saints ended up with the 4th ranked defense in the entire league after three weeks of play.
We now have the 5th ranked scoring defense to boot.
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well the true tests are coming up. couple of more weeks for the elite teams we are going to play to compile tape on what we are doing. then we will know. till then break out the party hats and put the good stuff on ice. in a few weeks we will know if we can open it.

offense? the oL needs to get its act together the clock is ticking.

miami will be a good match up. they are a good team after watching them against the clowns.

The Saints also lead the league in time of possession, and their opponents are averaging 55 plays per game, which also lead the league (lowest average number of offensive plays by opponent). These stats go hand in hand, and are caused by the defense being able to get off the field on third downs.

In Sunday's game against the Cardinals, the Cards converted their first three third down opportunities, then failed on each of the next eight. That's pretty impressive for a defense to force a punt on eight straight possessions. And, the following two possessions by Arizona were INTs.

Basically the defense gave up 3 runs that are skewing the average.
50 yard by Jackson, the 28 yarder by Martin and 21 yards by Smith.
Martin is really the only RB to have a good game but he ran the ball
more times then we do as a team. 29 attempts. The good news is none of these runs went for TD's, someone did make a tackle.

Basically the defense gave up 3 runs that are skewing the average.
50 yard by Jackson, the 28 yarder by Martin and 21 yards by Smith.
Martin is really the only RB to have a good game but he ran the ball
more times then we do as a team. 29 attempts. The good news is none of these runs went for TD's, someone did make a tackle.

I was just about to comment on the RBs we have faced.. Smith also ripped a 21 yarder off. if we stop the gashing then we will be a lot better than where we are now.